S. Jay Olshansky Quotes
Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
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As people's opportunities to succumb to confirmation bias increases online - only seeking out information that confirms their prejudices - ignorance, extremism and close-mindedness have continued to rise unabated.
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When you get older, you have to stay a bit rock n' roll so that young people will still be interested in you. The way you move, the way you talk, maybe the way you have your hair in your face a little bit - this keeps you interesting.
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It is easy to be nice, even to an enemy - from lack of character.
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I definitely grew up as a small-town... I guess you could call it the 'small-town football player,' according to the stereotype. I wasn't involved in music at all.
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I am the only one in my family to graduate college. It was a proud moment for me to receive a degree.
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When you are honest and open with young people, they let you in.
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Just because you're of the same sex, what difference does it make? Get married to whomever you want.
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I watch a lot of television. I always have.
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Not raising the debt ceiling is not an automatic trigger for a default.
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Memory is not particularly linear - it is associative, repetitive, subjective and porous. But the writer needs to convey disorder and dysfunction without making the novel itself disorderly or dysfunctional.
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I spent 250 to 300 days of every year on the road. But in the end, I felt something was missing. I needed to be anchored so I could concentrate, so in 2000, I established a new methodology - the one I use today. I spent the week in my office and travelled every weekend, even at Christmas.
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Hors D'oeuvre: A ham sandwich cut into forty pieces.
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When I think of influential females in hip-hop, my mind goes to Foxy Brown, hands down.
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Fighters today are much bigger, stronger and quicker and not only that but referees, judges and doctors back then were very strict and if your head got busted up the fight would be stopped.
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In 2003, as a 21-year-old convert to Islam, I moved from Colorado to Cairo to see what life was like in a Muslim country.
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Art cannot result from sophisticated, frivolous, or superficial effects.
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My first Top of the Pops I didn't want to do. I was terrified. I'd never done television before. Seeing the video afterwards was like watching myself die.
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I met David Bowie when I was 14, and he became a hero to me - because he was an artist, and because he was a genius who had the time to be kind. I'd never met such an extraordinary artist before, and I haven't since - the world will be a greyer place without him.
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When an idea reaches critical mass there is no stopping the shift its presence will induce.
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You can be deprived of your money, your job and your home by someone else, but remember that no one can ever take away your honor.
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I am the oldest of three. I was in charge of making sure my brother and sister were OK and also entertained so they didn't bother my mother, who had a job at home.
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I used to feel more straight for certain months and then just think about boys all the time I'm attracted to women who are very, very boyish. I'm not very big on big mammaries. I have a tendency to be attracted to very, very boyish girls. And usually very feminine men.
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Humans will die like all living things do, but we have the added burden of knowing that we will.
